Has anyone ever actually read The Stupids?

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I only remember the books. They were pretty much the highlight of hanging out at my grandmas. I think I laughed to the point of tears at "The Stupids Die" (where the lights go out and they think that they are dead) but now that I'm older and it's one o'clock in the morning I realize that it's actually a very old concept, stemming from this one Jewish folktale about a town of idiots (they got dropped there by a clumsy angel when God was distributing people). One man is told that if he climbs the roof, he will fall off and die. He climbs the roof and falls off...and subsequently insists on being buried (because he is obviously dead). So begins an argument about the qualities of death. They finally decide that the man is alive because he is hungry, and the dead don't get hungry.

But then again...maybe the Stupids were always dead. Cogito ergo sum right? Maybe we're all dead, and the world we know is just sense datum manipulated by some sadistic otherdimensional mad scientist. How do we know when we are thinking.

Wow. I should go to bed. Thanks for checking out my rambling.

How much of this movie (aside from the characters) was adapted from the books. The book where they were 'dead' remember when Stanley and his daughter were in the planetarium. When the stars came on, both thought they were dead and in Heaven.

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